454, the Battle of Red Cliffs begins

In a blink of an eye, it was another few days. With the efforts of nearly 100 "shippers" from Dong Zhuojun, hundreds of giant tower ships were ready. Thick iron chains wrapped the tower ships together, thick wooden boards were laid on it, and a huge water floating platform of several miles had been built.

In addition to the tower ships being connected, other small boats, such as bucket ships, were also locked with corresponding iron chains to make a slightly smaller platform. Thousands of light small sampans were not locked into the platform, but allowed them to be scattered around the platform, just like the escort ships followed by later aircraft carriers.

These small sampans were all carried by skilled sailors from Jingzhou, and they were flexible and flexible when advancing and retreating.

These "escort ships" were arranged by Guo Jia. Although she had arranged a buckle that could quickly dismantle the floating platform on the water, she was still a little worried that the water platform would be attacked by fire, so she arranged thousands of small boats to protect it. If the enemy's fire ships wanted to get close, these small boats would intercept it first. This was the hottest time in summer, with the air dry and the sun shining. If a fire broke out on the platform, the consequences would be unimaginable.

In the center of this giant water platform, there is an ice city with a radius of 200 meters. It is the ice castle made by Lord Lou Gui's physical control technology "Ice City".

This ice city is not big, much smaller than the ice city when I dealt with the Ma family army last time near Chang'an. The reason is very simple. When building an ice city on land, you only need to build a city wall. Lou Gui's energy can be used to build a city wall. However, building an ice city on the water surface not only requires building a city wall, but also the ice city must have a bottom, otherwise it will not be able to float on the water surface and there will be no people inside.

So Lou Gui had to reduce the size of the ice city and create a small ice city with a radius of hundreds of meters. Later, Lou Gui discovered that the ice city melted very quickly in midsummer. She had to save some energy for herself and replenish ice cubes at any time. Otherwise, if the ice city melts, she will not have the energy to replenish it. Wouldn't that be a waste?

Therefore, the final form of the Ice City is only 200 meters in radius, and only Dong Zhuo and a group of important officials can be placed inside, and with less than a thousand guards, they cannot pretend to be too many people.

Dong Zhuo didn't want to stay in the ice city, and wanted to run to the water floating platform built by a building boat to play, but Guo Jia was worried that the water floating platform would be attacked by fire, so he insisted repeatedly and mobilized a lot of civil servants to advise him, and finally asked Dong Zhuo to agree to stay in the ice city during the decisive battle.

When Dong Zhuojun was fully prepared, a spectacular beautiful scenery formed on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

A huge water floating platform of ten miles (5,000 meters) long and wide was spread around a seven-meter-high ice city. Next to this huge water floating platform, thousands of small boats were surrounded, like shuttles, and 200,000 soldiers boarded the floating platform and the boat, and there were also 630,000 troops left on the north side of the Yangtze River as a reserve army.

(Author's note: The Yangtze River near Chibi is only three kilometers wide, which is about three thousand meters wide. It is impossible to create a 5,000-meter-sized water floating platform on a 3,000-meter-wide river. However, the Yangtze River in ancient times could not be as wide as it is now. Considering that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and various folk legends have said that a chain ship is reasonable, it must be widened. Therefore, the width of the Yangtze River in the Chibi section in this book is set to 15,000 meters, which is fifteen kilometers wide... Ahem... This number is quite exaggerated, and I am also ashamed, but it is not very exaggerated. After all, the widest part of the Yangtze River is 180 kilometers wide.)

Looking up by hundreds of thousands of troops, Dong Zhuo, who had just finished taking a shower in the dark room, walked up to the ice city with his head held high with his chest held high. The summer sun shone on the ice city, making the sky of the ice city full of white air, which was very beautiful.

Dong Zhuo opened his mouth and planned to say something to boost morale. However, as soon as he opened his mouth, he felt the cold air in the Ice City invading. She sneezed suddenly, quickly took a coat from the nearby servant and draped it on her body, muttering dissatisfiedly: "It's all Guo Jia, I have to climb the Ice City. What's so fun about this cold place!"

Li Ru next to him quickly said, "Your Majesty, Military Advisor Guo is also for your safety. This ice city can prevent fire attacks, which is the safest."

"Come on, I know this, otherwise I won't listen to her." Dong Zhuo waved his hand, coughed dryly, and then shouted at the soldiers who looked at her from the ice city, "My brave soldiers, the decisive battle is about to begin..."

Dong Zhuo was calm and continued: "The world often said 'Southern ships and North Horses', which means that people from the south are good at boats, and people from the north are good at horses. These southern barbarians look down on people from the north and think that we can only ride horses and not take boats. Today, we will teach the southern barbarians to know that the northerners will not be vague when fighting water wars!"

After hearing this, the soldiers responded in unison: "Yes, the Southern Barbarian!"

Dong Zhuo then said, "What is the most important thing about our southern expedition? Do you know?"

The troops were stunned and then shouted loudly: "The Lord was humiliated and died, and sweared to kill the escaped pet!" The 200,000 naval troops shouted in unison, with a shocking momentum. The 630,000 troops who acted as reserves on the shore also responded in unison, roaring and roaring.

Dong Zhuo nodded with satisfaction and said, "That hateful escaped pet escaped from my harem. He killed many generals of our army along the way, and also humiliated General Zhang Xiu...cough...and also humiliated General Huang Gai who was planning to join our army. Now let's kill him across the river and capture him alive, and then kill him, and look like eighteen!"

After hearing this, everyone was indignant and said in unison: "Kill the river and castrate the escaped pet first and then kill!"

"Okay! What are you waiting for!" Dong Zhuo waved his hand and shouted softly: "Tong the entire army, the battle across the river will begin now!"

"Coax!" The soldiers who were lined up neatly on the water platform to listen to Dong Zhuo's lectures suddenly dispersed, driving the sail, driving the steer, and paddling the steer...

A huge main mast is standing in the middle of the giant platform that is five thousand meters wide. This main mast is made of the trunk of a thousand-year-old tree. It is thick with dozens of people holding each other. It stands in the center of the platform. A huge sail of hundreds of meters long and wide rises along the main mast, and hundreds of sail drivers pulled it up with sail ropes.

There is a golden dragon on the sail. The most important thing is that the dragon's eyes actually have long eyelashes on it. It seems that this is still a female golden dragon... It turns out that Dong Zhuo does not like the traditional dragon head shape and forced the painters to redesign the female golden dragon specially used by Her Majesty the Queen... Ahem...

As soon as the golden dragon sail was unfolded, the sailor cursed depressedly: "Fuck, this ghost weather is not a trace of wind."

This is the hottest time in midsummer, and the world is extremely dull. Where does the wind come from? As a result, the huge golden dragon sail can only be used as decorations.

Tens of thousands of sailors paddled together, and the terrifying water platform moved inch by inch and began to slowly move towards the center of the river. Since this section of the Yangtze River is only thirty miles wide, the water platform occupies ten miles. Therefore, one-third of the river surface is shrouded by the huge momentum of Dong Zhuojun. The Jiangdong Water Village opposite the river seems so small.

After the water platform began to move, thousands of light small warships moved together, like small fish swimming beside a giant whale, protecting Dong Zhuo's central army. On this huge platform, there are 50,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, 5,000 Clan Camp, 5,000 Flying Bear Army, 5,000 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry... All the elites of Dong Zhuo's army are among them.

There are Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Li Ru, Ju Su, Cheng Yu, Diao Chan...

Wu You Lu Bu, Dian Wei, Zhang Liao, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan...

Dong Zhuojun's momentum is so strong that he can be said to be invincible in the world.

At the same time, on the south side of the Yangtze River, Chibi Water Village! The Jiangdong girls were ready, and 50,000 Jiangdong sailors boarded the new warships, and they were about to attack just by waiting for the command of the Grand Commander.

The iceberg beauty Zhou Gongjin was wearing a shark-skin diving suit, and she was wearing a dark brown iron armor on her outside, standing at the bow of a huge building ship. There was no other expression on her cold face, but everyone saw strong confidence in her eyes.

She waved her hand gently, pointed to the huge golden dragon fan opposite the river and said, "Dong Zhuo is here! The decisive battle has begun! Everything goes as planned."

"No!" Huang Gai took the lead and said, "For this first stage, let me, the 'submitted general' go!"

The Iceberg Beauty looked at Huang Gai deeply and said coldly: "Be careful... don't get yourself into the fire."

Huang Gai nodded and led thirty-five fire ships to the dock first. These thirty-five fire ships were all specially made, and looked like ordinary small warships, but the belly of the boat was not filled with ballast stones like ordinary ships, but was filled with bottles and jars, all of which were fish oil incendiary bombs.

Each ship is equipped with ten sailors, all of which are the most elite soldiers in Jiangdong. Not only are everyone good at boat racing, but they are also very good at water. Once the ship catches fire, they will dive together to escape.

Huang Gai boarded a fireboat led by the leader, asked the soldiers to raise a big flag on the bow of the ship, and wrote "Pioneer Huang Gai". The soldiers rowed the slurry, and the warships flew towards Dong Zhuojun opposite him.

Just as Huang Gai set out, Sun Yu was secretly crossing the river from Lukou County in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, preparing to go around Dong Zhuojun and intercept Huarong Road.

It turned out that before the war, Sun Yu and Zhou Yu had discussed it carefully, believing that if Dong Zhuo's army was defeated, they would definitely escape from Huarong Road. Of course, Sun Yu was misunderstood by the records in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but Zhou Yu judged it based on his own experience.

Therefore, when Sun Yu took the initiative to ask for an army to take to Huarong Road to cut off Dong Zhuo's retreat, Zhou Yu immediately agreed to his request. Sun Yu had long-distance "reconnaissance" and was the most suitable candidate for long-distance cooperation with the large army. He could lead his troops to hide in Huarong Road, but he could grasp the progress of the decisive battle of Chibi at any time. No one was more suitable to go to Huarong Road than him.

Since the Jiangdong Warriors' land combat ability is not very strong, the army sent to Huarong Road to cut off Dong Zhuo's retreat needs to be sent by Gongsun Jun. Sun Yu's generals Chen Gong, Zhao Yun, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others stayed in the Jiangdong Army to cooperate with the Battle of Chibi, and returned to Lukou County and brought five thousand white horses with him.
Chapter completed!